Paddington.
_Holles Family._--I am very desirous of obtaining any information that can
be procured concerning the Holles family prior to the time of Sir William,
who was Lord Mayor of London in 1540. I should also be obliged if any of
your numerous correspondents can inform me, whether that member of the
family who married a lady named Gelks, I think since 1700, left any
posterity; from whom he was descended, and in what county he lived? Also,
who the Gelkses were, and whether the family is represented now; and, if
so, of what county they are?
The arms of the Holleses were--Ermine, two piles conjoining in the points
sable. The crest was a boar's head erased, azure, langued gules, pierced
with a pheon.
The Gelks bore--Ermine, three chevrons azure, charged with nine bezents
inter nine annulets gules.